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I quit watching new shows for a month and just rewatched The Wire start to finish, best decision I made all year
I kept starting 6 different shows in January and finishing none of them, just flipping around at 11pm every night and passing out with the remote in my hand. So I made a rule: nothing new for 30 days, only stuff I already knew I loved. I pulled up The Wire on a Sunday afternoon and told myself one episode. I watched the whole first season in three days. Here is the trick that made it work: I stopped treating it like homework and let myself skip the recap and intro every single time, which sounds dumb but it kept the momentum going instead of breaking the mood every 50 minutes. I caught stuff I missed the first time around in season 2, little looks and side comments that only land when you know where the story goes. By the end of the month I had blown through all 5 seasons and my sleep was wrecked but I felt way better than when I was doom scrolling through half finished pilots. Has anyone else done a no new shows stretch, and did you go back to an old favorite or try something you never finished?
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